Will the Yale and Harvard Streak End?
Now average Americans are going to have a hard time accepting this because average Americans consider the Ivy League to be something found in the history books, movies, or maybe in prose or fiction books. The Great Gatsby comes to mind.
Now average Americans are going to have a hard time accepting this because average Americans consider the Ivy League to be something found in the history books, movies, or maybe in prose or fiction books. The Great Gatsby comes to mind.
When
it comes to power, the Ivy League is IT but normally in terms of the dominant
Ivy influence over Wall Street, the international banking community, and the
engines of commerce.
Where did the following Latin phrases come from?
In Deo Speramus - (In God We Hope)
In lumine Tuo videbimus lumen - (In Thy light shall we see the light)
Quisquam qui ars - (Any person -Any study)
Vox clamantis in deserto - (The voice of one crying in the wilderness)
Veritas -(Truth)
Dei sub numine viget - (Under God's power she flourishes)
Leges sine moribus vanae - (Laws without morals are useless)
Lux et veritas - (Light and truth)
Those are the mottos of the eight venerated Ivy League schools.
Brown
Cornell
Harvard
Princeton
Yale
It seems we understand the power and
influence of the Ivy League in terms of commerce but we really do not when it
comes to national politics. In fact, the attitude of the general
public, in terms of the Ivy League in politics, is rather bleak.
According to recent Rasmussen polls, only five percent (5%) of American Adults think it is better for
Try this!
There have been 43 men who served as US President including President Obama, It is often said that President Barack Obama is the 44th President of theUnited States of America United
States
There have been 43 men who served as US President including President Obama, It is often said that President Barack Obama is the 44th President of the
- Fourteen out of forty-three presidents have
attended one or more Ivy League schools.
- Twenty-five out of one hundred
- Fifty-seven out of one hundred and nine
Supreme Court justices have attended one or more Ivy League schools.
All considered, more than
a third of all U.S. presidents,
Supreme Court justices, and currently serving U.S.
It gets better.
When
Obama completes his 2nd term next January we will have had 28 straight years of
presidents from Yale and Harvard alone, consisting of Bush 1, Clinton, Bush 2
and Obama. In fact, in the 227 years we have elected presidents,
remember George Washington first took office in 1789, the Ivy League has held
the presidency 85 of those years, or 37% of our history.
Hillary
Clinton or Donald Trump will be the 15th president from the Ivy League and that
may be a bit much for a nation in which the Ivy League represents just 8 out of
4,140 institutions of higher education.
For
those of you into decimals the Ivy League makes up under two tenths of one
percent (.001932) of our institutions yet controlled the presidency 37% of the
time.
Public 4-year institutions 629
Private 4-year institutions 1,845
Total 4 year 2,474
Public 2-year institutions 1,070
Private 2-year institutions 596
Total 2 year 1,666
Total 4 and 2 year 4,140
Public 4-year institutions 629
Private 4-year institutions 1,845
Total 4 year 2,474
Public 2-year institutions 1,070
Private 2-year institutions 596
Total 2 year 1,666
Total 4 and 2 year 4,140
Money talks and legacy institutions prosper
but you may be surprised when it comes to the costliest universities in America
A recently compiled list of the 20 Most Expensive Colleges in the country shows prices, which include Tuition, Fees, Room and Board, range from $63,750 to just under $67,225 per year.
#1 Harvey Mudd College $67,255
#2 Columbia University $66,383
#3 New York University $65,860
#4 Sarah Lawrence College $65,630
#5 University of Chicago $64,965
#6 Bard College at Simon's Rock $64,519
#7 University of Southern California $64,482
#8 Claremont McKenna College $64,325
#9 Oberlin College $64,266
#10 Scripps College $64,260
#11 Bard College $64,254
#12 Haverford College $64,216
#13 Duke University $64,188
#14 Dartmouth College $64,134
#15 Northwestern University $63,983
#16 Trinity College $63,970
#17 Pitzer College $63,880
#18 Southern Methodist University $63,840
#19 Amherst College $63,772
#20 John Hopkins University $63,750
Source: Business Insider and U.S. Department of Education
A recently compiled list of the 20 Most Expensive Colleges in the country shows prices, which include Tuition, Fees, Room and Board, range from $63,750 to just under $67,225 per year.
#1 Harvey Mudd College $67,255
#2 Columbia University $66,383
#3 New York University $65,860
#4 Sarah Lawrence College $65,630
#5 University of Chicago $64,965
#6 Bard College at Simon's Rock $64,519
#7 University of Southern California $64,482
#8 Claremont McKenna College $64,325
#9 Oberlin College $64,266
#10 Scripps College $64,260
#11 Bard College $64,254
#12 Haverford College $64,216
#13 Duke University $64,188
#14 Dartmouth College $64,134
#15 Northwestern University $63,983
#16 Trinity College $63,970
#17 Pitzer College $63,880
#18 Southern Methodist University $63,840
#19 Amherst College $63,772
#20 John Hopkins University $63,750
Source: Business Insider and U.S. Department of Education
To
my amazement only two Ivy League schools, Columbia
and Dartmouth
Compare that to a list of the best colleges and universities in the world for 2016.
Compare that to a list of the best colleges and universities in the world for 2016.
- California
Institute of Technology -
- University
of Oxford -
- Stanford
University -
- University
of Cambridge -
- Massachusetts
Institute of Technology -
- Harvard
University -
- Princeton
University -
- Imperial
College London -
- ETH
Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich -
- University
of Chicago -
- Johns
Hopkins University -
- Yale
University -
- University
of California, Berkeley -
- University
College London -
- Columbia
University -
- University
of California, Los Angeles -
- University
of Pennsylvania -
- Cornell
University -
- University
of Toronto -
- Duke
University -
Source: The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015-2016
Sorry rest of the world, but fourteen of the top twenty are from the United States, including six of the top ten. Harvard is the top ranked Ivy League school but six of the eight Ivy League schools are in the top twenty in the world.
What does this all mean? Here in the colonies it seems the more other schools catch up with the Ivy League in terms of the number of schools and the cost of education, the stronger those dastardly Ivy League schools get control of our presidency and political processes.
Harvard was the first university in
Isn't
it about time we give someone else a chance like The California Institute of
Technology, Stanford, MIT, Slippery Rock, or even The Pennsylvania State
University New Kensington Campus of the Commonwealth College, (the longest
college name in the USA)?
My
goal was to attend Yale for undergraduate and Harvard Law for graduate school
and I went through the multi-year application process, but fate had other plans
for me and I wound up at the University
of Arizona in Tucson
